Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1909 — Page 3

:♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ : J WEATHER FORECAST J t♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* $ Generally fair tonight and Friday; no decided change in temperature. Why We Seek Your Business Even though the demands of your business are a little different from those of others, we can serve you to advantage. Our bank service is a personal one in each instance. It will be in your case. Our facilities are adapted to the individual needs of our clients. We are serving our present customers to their satisfaction. We know we can do the same for you. Our service awaits you FIRST National Bank DECATUR, INDIANA Paying Ali Expenses With Cash ? consider these few facts about a checking system: A receipted legal voucher always—for every cent expended. Absolute freedom from all disputed payments. Absolute safety in all respects. An absolutely correct record of every cost. Think them over and investigate. OLD Adams Co. Bank

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s. E, Hite was a business caller at Fort Wayne. L. G. Ellingham went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. D. M. Hensley went to Fort Wayne this after-.non. Fred Shelman went to Kokomo today on business. Frank Kern returned from a busines strip at Craigville. Miss Winnie Johnson returned to her home near Williams today. Mrs. Ed Kintz and son Elmo went to Pleasant Mills today to visit her parents. Mrs. J. W. Hill returned to her home at Pleasant Mills on the noon train today. Charles Baker has assumed a half interest in the Nidlinger ice cream parlor. Mrs. Henry Barnett returned to her home at Pleasant Mills today on the noon train. • Mrs. Joseph Bowman, of Willshire, returned to her home on the noon train today. f Mrs. May Wittenfeldt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is in the city the guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Trout. Mrs. Lucile Terrence, of Marion, is in the city making a visit with Miss Midge Smith and other friends. Miss Victoria Stone will go to Muncie Satudray to remain over Sunday as the guest of friends and relatives. Carl K. Moses and Miss Gertrude Moses were Fort Wayne visitors last evening and have returned to the city. The Radamacher restaurant is becoming more popular each day. It is a neat place and is being well patronized. Attorney F. Cottrell, of Berne, was in the city today looking after business interest and returned to his home this afternoon. Mrs. R. E. Peters and daughter Leah will return tomorrow evening from a several days' sojourn at Waterloo and Lake James. R. E. Peters returned last night from a several days' outing at Waterloo and Lake James. Mrs. Peters and daughter will return later. Mr, Summers, of Brown & Summers real estate dealers, went to Kokomo on business today. The firm has been making some important business deals lately. Rev. and Mrs. Hoile and children, of Shumm, Ohio, who has been visiting the former’s father, William Hoile and family, of Root township, returned to their home today. Dr. J. L. Hensley, of Marion, Ohio, is quite sick at his home in that city, the result of having Been overcome by the heat. The doctor is quite well known here, and his many friends sincerely hope for his early improvement. Senator Beveridge has begun at Washington a search for Arthur Hoagland, who left his mother’s home at Warsaw, Ind., eight years ago and who has not been heard from since. The senator was moved to take action by a pathetic letter from the boy's mother Mrs. Barbara Hoagland, of Warsaw. C. V. Imler, son of Rev. I. Imler, of this city, has gone to LaOtto to accept a position as operator at the junction of the G. R. & I. and Vandalia railroads. He began duties today. Mr. Imler has been employed at the Runyon store for some time and was a very efficient man. He is an operator of ability and has had much experience in the railroad business.

Mrs. R. Limenstahl returned to her home at Peterson today. Omer Niblick is visiting with friends at Fort W’ayne today. J. B. Holthouse is attending to business at Bluffton today. W. Stafford, of Hoagland, was in the city today on business. Dan Niblick went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. B. F. Brown made a business trip to Kokomo and Tipton today. Miss Alma Bowen, of Willshire,went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Andrew Welfly went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit friends. Mrs. Alex Bell went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit her son, C. K. Bell and family. Fanny Hammel returned from Portland this morning, where she has been visiting with friends for the past few days. Miss Florence Kunkle and Fannie McConnel attended the meeting of the Waste R Club this afternoon north of the city. Mrs. Mary Murphy left this morning for Traverse City, Mich., where she will visit for a week or so with her daughters at that place. Mrs. Elmer Miller went to Traverse City, Mich., this morning where she will visit for some time with her brothers at that place. Henry Shoemaker, of Andrews, convicted at Huntington of operating a "blind tiger,” was fined SSO and sent to jail for thirty days. There is now but one saloon operating in Whitley county—that of Grant Pence ,at Columbia City—and it will go out of business July 8. Mrs. R. C, Stone will leave tomorrow morning for her home at Muncie, after making a pleasant visit in the city with friends and relatives. One of the rural mail carriers at Logansport has refused to make further trips over his route until the roads are placed in passable condition. Mrs. George Steele Is very sick at her home on Marshall street with malarial fever. Mrs. Steele has been sick for the past five or six weeks. Willie Henchey, a little lad at Peru, was attacked by a vicious rooster and the child’s face was badly lacerated before the angry bird was driven off. Rome City, which in winter time has a population of about 500, now claims from 2,500 to 3,000 people, owing to the annual influx of cottagers at Sylvan lake. Don't forget to arrange to come to the big log rolling to be held at jSteele’s park on July 17th. There will be much doing and you will have a good time. Mrs. J. H. Heller and children, who have been guests of friends at Shelbyville and Indianapolis for two weeks past, are expected home Saturday evening. Its great weather for the ice man, but its tough on the customer, at sixty cents per hundred, but then we never will be just altogether satisfied. As a rule a man’s a fool, when it's hot he wants it cool, etc. Investigating the presence of a flocs of buzzards upon his farm, J. D. Goodin, a member of the Wells county board of review discovered that ten of his sheep had been killed by a bolt of lightning several days before. Mrs. George Ulmer, wife of the former foreman at the printing office of the Bluffton Manufacturing company was in town this morning packing her household goods for shipment to her new home in Portland where her husband has accepted a position. —Bluffton News. What might have been a real runaway was averted this morning when a horse belonging to J. R. Graber took fright at some of the Fourth of July noise and started down Second street. Mr. Graber being near ran out and stopped it Just in time to prevent a smashup. Will Hammel! took possession of the city newstand this morning, and he is anxious to please you if you are a customer in his line, and most every one in town is to a greater or less extent. If you don’t get your paper regularly, or as ordered be sure to let Will know, and he will see that you do. Benjamin F. Collins, of Elkhart, 60 years old, slashed his throat twice in a room adjoining Justice Brumbaugh’s court while awaiting trial for assault and battery preferred by George Butters, whose wife is the alleged affinity of Collins. He may recover. “Wanted to finish it up,” was the only explanation by Collins. Jerry Drudge, president of the Akron Exchange bank and one of the richest farmers in Fulton county, has just returned from Chicago, where he had two amputations made on his leg in order to arrest progressive gangrene. .'His physician says he will fully recover. The first amputation was just above the foot and the second above the knee.

Work on the excavation at the new K. of*P. building on Third street will begin next Monday. If you have not subscribed for the Mack's Monthly yet, see Tony Conter or leave your order at this office. Clyde Baumgartner went to Monroe this afternoon, where he is aiding his, father in doing some surveying in that l place. The Moser studio is undergoing a good painting and other improvements which adds very much to this popular place of business. Work of cleaning up the’ old Burt House lots is progressing and another year will likely find that part of the city nicely rebuilt. The Merry Widow lunch room at Bluffton was badly wrecked by the explosion of the gasoline heating apparatus attached to the coffee urn. A crowd of young people will leave Sunday for Cedar Point, where they will spend a week or so along the beautiful waters and free their minds from its strenuous works. M. E. Brackett, C. A. Dugan, H. L. Conter, Harry Ward, Dr. E. G. Coverdale and Nick Miller w-ere business callers at Fort Wayne last evening, making the trip in automobiles. L. A. McCullough, the Clover Leaf agent, arrived home last evening from a several days’ vacation at Webster Lake. He is looking well and feeling good after his rest. He will commence work tomorrow. Mrs. Jerry Torrence, of Marion, who is spending several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bryson, North Pleasant street, went to Decatur Tuesday evening for a short visit.—Portland Sun. Mrs. Eva Lindsey, of Kendallville, and Mrs. Martha Brown, of Lebanon, sisters, have just been reunited after sixteen years. They were deserted by their father while they were mere girls and drifted apart when they were placed in orphan asylums. Mayme lusher, 13-year-o'd daughter of William Lesher, at Peru, critically ill from measles and pneumonia had to be carried into the street when the house caught fire, and may die as a result of the fright and excitement. Mrs. C .C. Myers, of Robinson, 111., who is spending several weeks with her father, A. F. Cougill and family. West Main street, went to Muncie Tuesday morning on the 8:40 car to spend the day with her uncle, Robert Miller and wife. —Portland Sun.

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Did You Ever See the Silk Lisle Hose for men that we sell at 35c a pair or 3 pairs for SI.OO. Colors are Tans, Gun Metals and Hunter Greens. We’ve another new feature to show you in three-quarter hose for men who wear athletic underwear. Black and Tan shades Silk Lisle, 50 cents a pair. Ask for these specials, they’re sure to please. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

Austin Uhrick has transferred here enroute to his home in Dunkirk from Decatur where he has been employed for the past three months. —Portland Commercial-Review. Ratch Blackburn, a good old scout, who has traveled over aoout every foot of ground from the Pacific to the eastern states and from the lakes to the gulf ,is here for an over the Fourth visit with mammy and daddy, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blackburn. Ratch is now employed as asalesmcn and advertising representative of the Foley & Company Medicine concern, of Chicago, one dt the biggest and best houses of its kind in the land. His territory had been in Missouri ana Arkansas, and after his visit here he will begin in Oklahoma.

Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’o Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 28 —12 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. ia

4TH. OF JULY RATES ON THE Toledo, Saint Louis & Western A Big Day in TOLEDO the 4th. Grand Concert by U. S. Military Band—Opening of the new Base Ball Park, one of the finest in America. COLUMBUS VS TOLEDO Special Excursion Rates, See Clover Leaf Agents for particulars. E. L. Browne, D. P. A., Toledo, Ohio.